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Like “O woman shapely as a swan, These cantos are indicative of Pound's Imagist style. Cantos III-VII take place in the Mediterranean, where Pound draws on classic mythology and the Renaissance in order to portray themes of clarity and light. ; Confucius – Also called Kung, Kung-fu-tseu and Chung at various points in the poem. Article award, 2017 .

Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered glosses for each canto the most pertinent details from the vast body of work on the Cantos during the last thirty years.

Stanton Hager (9/21/2006 9:00:00 AM). Horace Cole - Cantos LXXX, LXXXI; Padraic Colum - Canto LXXX: His "O woman shapely as a swan" (from a poem called Drover) quoted.Pound praised this poem in his 1918 essay A Retrospect. Canto XIV - Io venni in luogo d'ogni luce muto. He died, following a decade of silence, in 1972. And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and We set up mast and sail on that swart ship, Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward Bore us out onward with bellying canvas, Circe's this craft, the trim-coifed goddess. To Break the Hexameter: Classical Prosody in Ezra Pound's Early Cantos.

(last updated 9 July 2019) Cantos VII-XI tell the story of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, a 15th century poet and patron of the arts.

Orla Polten. In 1949, while imprisoned for treason, Ezra Pound won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for Poetry for The Pisan Cantos, a sequence he began while in jail. 1 likes. The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos.

There's not even a mention of sex in "Canto I," which isn't true of all Pound's Cantos. Frequently in The Cantos, as this one, luminous lines are overshadowed by gray dull ones. Basil Bunting wrote of The Cantos: "You will have to go a long way round / if you want to avoid them." in Modern Philology 115.2 (November 2017): 264–288.

London: Bloomsbury 2017.

Ezra Pound's Cantos represent some of the highest achievement in 20th century poetry. Ezra Pound, from "Canto CXV" (The Cantos of Ezra Pound)” ― Ezra Pound, The Cantos.

The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound. 1 likes.

Like “To communicate and then stop, that is the law of discourse To go far and come to an end” ― Ezra Pound, The Cantos.

“Pound’s recent unfinished epic, three cantos of which appear in the American edition of Lustra, proceeds by a very different method than that of Joyce in Ulysses.In appearance, it is a rag-bag of Mr. Pound’s reading in various languages, from which one fragment after another is dragged to light, and illuminated by the beauty of his phrase.